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Harry Krause wrote:
John Smith wrote:

If Bush lied about WMD's, then so did all presidents going back to the late
80's and the majority of congressman, senators and the United Nations since
the First Gulf War.

You may not agree with Bush's decision to a preemptive strike, but no one
can seriously believe he lied. It might make for a great campaign sound
bite, but any rational person would know that is nothing more than politics
to say Bush lied, since he was using the exact same intelligence that
Clinton used when he stated Iraq had WMD.


Of course he lied. There were all sorts of reports available to Bush
that indicated there were no WMD in Iraq. Bush and his fellow
Bush-****ters made a conscious decision to ignore intel that didn't play
into their rationale, and then went on to deceive the American public
about it.

The chickens are coming home to roost for Bush now. With any luck, the
American voters will toss the ignorant, incompetent, lying son of a
bitch out this fall.

The weapons of mass destruction that Rumsfeld and others in the Reagan
administration sold to Iraq did exist. In the 1980s and 1990s. But
they were destroyed. See Scott Ritter's piece at
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0210-02.htm
to get some first-hand reports of what was going on during the UNSCOM
days.

We've just shown ourselves to be suckers to Chalabi, willing to invade
a country at the urging of those who wanted Hussein out for their own
purposes. We should be very careful about believing Israel when it claims
that their primary opponent is hiding the same mythical WMDs.